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dc7rr · 08-31-2006, 11:21 AM

Hey all. My name's Danny & I'm from So Cal. I'm new to the board but I rode for about 12 years until I had a bad accident about 7 years ago. I've lost theuse of my right arm but I am getting back on shortly thanks to a guy I read about in Motorcyclist named George Niedoba that has the same injury as I do an has been able to modify his bikes to ride with just the left hand. His website is http://optionmoto.net/ for those that might be interested. He has also started a forum for disabled riders: http://crash1.forumcircle.com.

The last bike I had was a 1999 ZX7R in all black. I have mostly ridden 750's but I am looking for a 600 at the time. Probably a 600RR or a GSXR600. I plan to only ride on the track and really look forward to getting back on. This has always been a dream for me to be able to ride again and I'm almost there. I look forward to hanging out here alot and getting all the info I can. We didn't have resources like this when I was riding so I'm pretty impressed with this forum.

That's the digested version of my story for now. I'll post more in detail in the future. Thanks.

ingrahamm · 08-31-2006, 12:18 PM

awesome story. glad to have you here.

dc7rr · 08-31-2006, 12:55 PM

Thanks ingrahamm, I appreciate the welcome. I hope to see more people with injuries/disabilities riding in the future. I've been told my injury is sort of common in high speed accidents since when a person is thrown off at high speed, there's a tendency of the arm to drag behind them causing injury to the Brachial Plexus nerves that go into the arm. I tore all 5 of those nerves off the spinal cord itself so there wasn't anything they could do with those nerves. The Dr's tried taking nerves from my legs & splicing them into the opposite arm then bringing them over to my injured arm. It has brought back a little movement in the shoulder but not much more.

If anybody needs any info on this subject, please feel free to contact me.

JaiBird · 09-02-2006, 03:16 PM

Welcome to SBN.

m_chevy · 09-02-2006, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by dc7rr

Thanks ingrahamm, I appreciate the welcome. I hope to see more people with injuries/disabilities riding in the future.

As long as it's not me.

Nah, just kidding. I know what you mean. It's so cool to go out riding and seeing all different kinds of people on bikes.

OBTW--- Welcome